Marionette Modernism after Aleksandra Ekster & Sophie Taeuber-Arp

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For generating stylized images reminiscent of photos featuring Constructivist or/and Dadaist avant-garde string marionettes (or/and stringless "living dolls").
A few of Taeuber-Arp's marionettes used for this fine-tune: A few of Taeuber-Arp's marionettes used for this fine-tune:

Prompt
dadadoll style photo frame from a live action Soviet modernist movie showing a complexly dramatic theatrical scene enacted by an avant-garde trio of living and breathing dancing dolls, designed and brought into motion by Aleksandra Ekster & Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Cubo-Futurististically designed marionettes in abstract and geometric styles, these creatures have come to life. large titular text: “MARIONETTE MODERNISM”.
Prompt
dadadoll style photo of a Constructivist Cubo-Futurist avant-garde marionette living doll crafted by Ekster of a revolutionary sailor on the left and a Ukrainian Bolshevik cossack on the right tying up and capturing a flabby green malicious top-hatted monster with bloody hands whose name is "CAPITAL": title text atop
Prompt
A dadadoll frame from a live action movie showing a complexly dramatic theatrical scene enacted by an avant-garde trio of living and breathing dancing dolls, designed and brought into motion by Aleksandra Ekster & Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Once mere artistically designed marionettes in abstract and geometric styles, these creatures have come to life, and are herein enacting strange dramas of love and loss between themselves. The central one is gold and sits on a red block, while the others stand behind. One is an armed many-limbed metallic robot, with blue and white elements with multiple arms and a complex electric battery-constituted headpiece, and the other is an elegantly minimalistic realistic white stag with a crescent-shaped golden semi-oval head decoration All three marionettes feature a refined, modern design with playful and imaginative forms.
Prompt
dadadoll style photo of a Constructivist Cubo-Futurist avant-garde marionette living doll crafted by Ekster of a revolutionary sailor on the left and a Ukrainian Bolshevik cossack on the right tying up and capturing a flabby green malicious top-hatted monster with bloody hands whose name is "CAPITAL": title text atop
Prompt
dadadoll style photo, in great quality, crisp HD color photo of a 1980s punk walking thru a Constructivist Leningrad of 1920s and saying, in a word bubble: "Little DUMMY moth BURNED up ON a CANDLE!", best quality, elaborate detail, crisp detailed background, blemished detailed faces with pores and lines, accurate anatomy and city details
Prompt
large titular decorative cover text atop: “MARIONETTE MODERNISM”. dadadoll style photo frame from a live action Soviet modernist movie showing a complexly dramatic theatrical scene enacted by an avant-garde trio of living and breathing dancing diverse Soviet revolutionary marionette dolls, designed and brought into motion by Aleksandra Ekster & Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Cubo-Futurististically designed marionettes with vivid humanoid features and geometric styles, these creatures have come to life. Constructivist aesthetics. Colorful urban backdrop. large titular text: “MARIONETTE MODERNISM”.

This is the 1st Variant of this LoRA, fine-tuned over normie distilled FLUX. Find the alt. Variant 2 tuned over a De-Distilled FLUX, at a higher rank, & more steps HERE.

Our Low-Rank Adapter (LoRA) for FLUX models fine-tuned on a set of manually pre-processed & exhaustively captioned...
Selection of 60+ photos of uncanny avant-garde Cubo-Futurist/Constructivist & Surrealist/Dadaist string puppets from two mutually-echoing, though autonomously developed, sets crafted by two of 20th century's most iconic and influential avant-garde artists:
Aleksandra Ekster (1882 — 1949) and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889 — 1943):

PHOTO OF ALEKSANDRA EKSTER: PHOTO OF ALEKSANDRA EKSTER

PHOTO OF SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP: PHOTO OF SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP

EKSTER & TAEUBER-ARP: Two epochal artists and leading visionaries of their respective (and occasionally overlapping) creative mileus, both utterly distinctive stylists and ever-evolving experimentalists with a shared artistically omnidexterous zeal for expressing their singular geniuses in any and every mode, context, or sphere of expression presciently gleaned at the horizons of a given year or day.
And though their names are seldomly mentioned in the same breath or abstract by researchers or curators, Ekster's & Taeuber-Arp's artistic trajectories do hold between them some measure of spectral rhyme, like a matching rhythm of two extremely long shadows tossed by two incomparable lives unto some unbestknown shared point of exact inbetweenness...
...granted, comparing their arts, styles, or even specific works would likely be a pointless exercise, and at best an entertaining little mystification, with no exhaustive enough point of reference to speak of (with the closest plausible exception being the two marrionette sets that went into this LoRA; still... we'd rather treat these dolls as a signal echo, a commonality, not as some opportune overlay for critical dissection by contrast harnessing);

...moreover, every conclusion one might reach by placing the works/ways of two artists in direct contrast to each other (and, thereby, becoming all the more decontextualized in other ways) tends to be even more contrived and shallow than a museum retrospective brochure, or a random introductory write-up like this one ... So... What are we left with? Why, everything, of course!
...For the prime commonality of these particular two artists is, of course, condensed in the comparably monumental scale, kaleidoscopic variety, and pioneering resonance of the influence each and both had cast upon their largely-co-contemporaneous lifetimes, worlds, and arts...
– with Ekster (co-)formulating (alongside Burlyuk, Goncharova, Malevich, Tatlin, Popova, & others) the premises and most prolifically refining the character of Eastern-European Cubo-Futurism, Suprematism, & Soviet Constructivism alike;
– and with Taeuber-Arp due at least as much, and arguable more, credit than any of her over-mythologized Sur-Dada peers for the shaping of both Dadaism & Surrealism artistically (some avant-garde historiographers seem to forget that part); meaning, a Surrealism both greater & other than any mere "style", constituting an open-form process-oriented creative life-mode, which Taeuber-Arp had lived out unto a model epitome in ways Dali could only dream of (occasionally reporting back), and only a few others matched then or since (notably, Carrington in her latter days)... ...as for our extending rhyme-scheme of Tauber-Arp's & Ekster's comparative impact-traces; some additional echoes between them sound out within the steep angle to which both their statures, their respective gravities of influence, have been posthumously understated by art historiographers & other hauntological strappers-up of heavy-stringed canons, with their due canonical stature for long with-held. And for what possible reason?

One of Ekster's marionettes used for this fine-tune: One of Ekster's marionettes used for this fine-tune: Check out a wider subset of Ekster's Cubo-Futurist/Constructivist avant-garde marionettes, from among the images used to fine-tune this LoRA VIA THIS LINK.

Check out a wider subset of Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Dadaist/Surrealist avant-garde marionettes, from among the images used to fine-tune this LoRA VIA THIS LINK.

Taeuber-Arp's marionette of King Stag: Taeuber-Arp's marionette of King Stag:

Trigger words

You should use dadadoll style photo or dadadoll style photo of a Constructivist living doll crafted by Ekster or 'dadadoll style photo of a Dadaist marionette crafted by Taeuber-Arp' or 'dadadoll style photo of avant-garde marionette string puppets by Taeuber-Arp & Ekster' to summon the artists' latent hands.

Use it with the 🧨 diffusers library

from diffusers import AutoPipelineForText2Image
import torch

pipeline = AutoPipelineForText2Image.from_pretrained('black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev', torch_dtype=torch.float16).to('cuda')
pipeline.load_lora_weights('AlekseyCalvin/Marionette_Modernism_FluxLoRA_Var1_bySilverAgePoets')
image = pipeline('your prompt').images[0]

For more details, including weighting, merging and fusing LoRAs, check the documentation on loading LoRAs in diffusers

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